LIBRARY NEWS

This Week in the Library...

Welcome to week 5 & 6, it’s hard to believe that we’re already halfway through the term! Students across all grades are getting ‘back into the swing’ of things and are consolidating library routines and borrowing some great books.

Kindergarten have been busy learning about how to care for books and will be taking home a special booklet they’ve been colouring in over the last couple of weeks about this. Please ask your child to see if they can recall any book care ideas, I’m sure (hope!) they've remembered a few. Kindergarten have also been enjoying books based around a friendship theme and this week are listening to ‘Noni the Pony’ and ‘Noni the Pony Rescues a Joey’ by Alison Lester. They’ve been quick to tell me about the rhyming words too!

Year 1 and 2 are continuing to enjoy more Pamela Allen books, they loved ‘Belinda’ last week, especially seeing how cows are milked. This week we’re enjoying more classic children’s books, ‘Who Sank the Boat’ and ‘My Cat Maisie’.

Year 3 & 4 are reading one of my favourite author/illustrator books by Leigh Hobbs. We visited London last week with ‘Mr Chicken Lands on London’ and this week we're zooming over to Italy in ‘Mr Chicken Arriva a Roma’. Students have particularly enjoyed viewing images of the real landmarks in both places. They’ve even learnt a few Italian words too.

Year 5 & 6 are really getting into our Visual Literacy unit and learning how ‘pictures tell a thousand words’. We’re looking into how illustrators and image creators use special techniques to engage us in stories, some even being wordless. This week, we’re looking at one of those stories, ‘Journey’ by Aaron Becker. Becker has created a trilogy of ‘Journey’ books and not one of them has a word in it. We’re going to be ‘reading’ images to find meaning. For more information about these books, you can visit Aaron Becker’s website here or watch the Journey book trailer below (it’s beautiful!)

Coming Up - Premier’s Reading Challenge 2022

Although it seems like it only just finished, the 2022 Premier’s Reading Challenge (PRC) is about to begin again. The voluntary challenge involves children reading a certain number of books from selected lists, logging them online with the PRC and receiving a completion certificate later in the year. The challenge aims to encourage a love of reading for pleasure in students and to enable them to experience quality literature. It is not a competition but a challenge for children to read, to read more and to read more widely. Coming home soon will be a permission slip for your child to register, if you and they would like to participate. The challenge begins on the 28/2/22 and runs through to the 19/8/22. If you would like more information about the challenge, visit the PRC website here.

Storybox Library

Did you know that by being a student at HTS your child is automatically subscribed to the online reading site, Storybox Library? This site is available to all Holy Trinity families which we hope gets kids excited about reading, inspire their imagination and let them have fun with stories while improving their language and literacy skills along the way.

SBL is a website where quality children’s books are read by Australian authors, illustrators and actors. As part of this subscription, our families can access this read-aloud service at home.

You can access Storybox Library here.

Username: htsinverell

Password: Trinity2360

To learn more about SBL, you can watch this video.